Catholics

A Drag Show at Notre Dame

Without predominantly Catholic faculty, many at Notre Dame will continue to push anti-Catholic agendas like drag shows in the name of “academic freedom.” Continue Reading »

9 Nov 2023

The Most Important Catholic Event Since Vatican II?

by George Weigel

If Synod 2023 is to be a development of the Church’s authentic tradition, its discussions must take full account of these eleven Catholic moments since Vatican II. Continue Reading »

4 Oct 2023

The Blessed Ulma Family and Our Catholic Moment

by George Weigel

The Ulmas lived the parable of the Good Samaritan literally. Continue Reading »

20 Sep 2023

An Open Letter to the Synod General Secretary

by George Weigel

The new document by the USCCB in preparation for the 2021–2023 Synod on Synodality overlooks the surging vibrancy of Catholicism in America. Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2022

Ivan Illich’s star once burned brightly. From the late sixties through the mid-seventies—when his influence was greatest—this learned Roman Catholic became a countercultural guru, notorious for facing a 1968 Vatican inquisition that led him to cease exercising his priesthood, though he . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2022

On The Threshold

by Patricia Snow

“I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry. . . I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2021

Somebody Needs To Be Dad

by Francis X. Maier

The extraordinary fact of Catholic life in the United States is not the few bishops who humiliate us so bitterly, but the many who do the job so well. Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2021